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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.

Bob Brown

Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
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Being Humanity Psychological Resonate Well Yet
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
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Difficult Kids Thinking
The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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Clouds Government Land
We are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
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Flower Forests Wall
The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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Environment Lucky Reality
Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
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Future Gun Life Real Security
Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
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Bodies Fashion Left Resonate Shopping
$Bob Brown Quote - With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.$

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
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Children Dollar Money Sunken War
The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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Be Kind Planets Reality
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
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Environmental People Positive
I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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Absorber Shock Want
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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Age Billion News Voters
Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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Inspirational Men Success
There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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Be Good Politically Presumption
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
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Eye Grandchildren Heart
Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
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Age Earth Past Resulting Together

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